On Oct 1st, "Hero of Rome: Book 4" will be published!

Chapters 103-130 will not be available on Royal Road due to Amazon KU.

Make sure to read those before Oct 1st!

There’s a ton of awesome stories coming to Antiquitus with Max (and more)! Don’t miss out, make sure to catch up on Amazon.

Veni vidi vici!

To reach 100 words for this announcement, here's 10 awesome from Marcus Aurelius.

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"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

— Meditations, Book X, 16

"A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining."

— Meditations, Book XI, 18

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

— Meditations, Book XII, 17

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."

— Meditations, Book VII, 59

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

— Meditations, Book VI, 8

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

— Meditations, Book VI, 6

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

— Meditations, Book II, 5

"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."

— Meditations, Book VIII, 59

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

— Meditations, Book IV, 3

"Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art."

— Meditations, Book IV, 2